Earthquake Aftermath Could Idle
Taiwan's Chip Industry for Weeks

TAIPEI, Taiwan -- The computer-chip industry here remained idled Wednesday, and it's not clear when production will start again after this week's earthquake cut power to much of the island.

The stoppage, which some Taiwan chip executives say could last for weeks, reverberated through the global-information-technology industry, which depends on Taiwan's factories for many of the tiny integrated circuits that make the world's...